Foucault: Archaeology and genealogy in discourse analysis

Abstract

This article aims to formulate some theoretical reflections about the procedures followed in discourse analysis, identifying the units that make it up. The lack of a finished theory where discourse is conceptualized in relation to social processes and that shows how to locate the statements, their constituent units, led the authors to this task. In Michel Foucault’s archaeological and genealogical studies an answer was found, even though the proposal of this philosopher is not entirely clear and even less finished. This paper shows the viability of analyzing both discourses and statements from their inward grouping, to highlight their rules of coexistence, and then being able to move toward the set of social relations that surround them.